But for weeks, I held my breath as we comparison shopped as the days until my closing date ticked away.

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Although time has ticked away, leaving virtually no chance of another candidate coming in, they will still cast around for a saviour.

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Back-row replacement Andy Powell proved his value as an impact player with some powerful running, but Toulouse continued to threaten as the minutes ticked away.

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The minutes ticked away to years as the Bosnian crisis claimed many thousands of lives, got Europeans themselves at cross-purposes and all but ruptured the transatlantic alliance.

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This time he knocked the ball in from close range after Laurens Ten Heuvel got in a header with United desperately trying to snatch an equaliser as the seconds ticked away deep into stoppage time.

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"Bennett's play feels less like a class comedy than an old man's rage against the sterility of today's cautious, over-organised society, where all boxes must be computer-ticked, and all human spirit and oddity processed away, " said Ismene Brown in her review for The Arts Desk.

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